Are you doing work that you love, helping people who need you most?
I walk from my bedroom to my home office in the mornings and think to myself “this doesn’t FEEL like work. I LOVE what I’m doing! And things are going great!” My work is a very natural extension of who I am.
Do you do the same thing? Or are you struggling, working way to hard, not getting the results you want? Do you know things could be a whole lot better…but don’t know how to make that happen?
It wasn’t always this way for me. I had had a long, successful career as a spiritual psychotherapist, and then another very successful career as a spiritual life coach. And then things dried up.
What I didn’t realize at the time was that my “cheese” had been moved. You know that book from a number of years ago, Who Moved My Cheese? Well, I wasn’t thinking that way. I didn’t KNOW my cheese had been moved. I just kept struggling, banging away in the same old ways that had worked before.
But the clients and the money weren’t coming. No energy was moving. And all the while I kept hearing myself say, disbelievingly, “I’m dead in the water!”. It created such dissonance for someone like me who had been successful for so long. I felt pretty lost and confused….and what’s worse, powerless.
But, I kept my head down, writing books, creating online courses, doing teleclasses, seeing my existing clients, etc, etc, etc but no one new was showing up! I was frustrated, but I kept on keeping on. My husband would say to me, “Have faith, it’s gonna happen!” but I did have my doubts. The good thing is I did keep on doing what I knew to do. The bad thing was I was creating all this stuff for where my ‘cheese’ USED TO BE.
It wasn’t until I began to work with my coach that things got clear. Yes, my cheese HAD been moved! And she helped me to see outside of the box, and understand where it had been moved to. Once that was in place, the energy faucet was turned on! The client faucet was turned on! And the money faucet was turned on too. Big time! Because I made the mindset shift to be in alignment with where my ‘cheese’ was now…and the funny thing is…I was already in alignment with it, I just didn’t see that! I’d had inklings, but not clarity.
The feeling of work now is play for me. Really! When you are 100% aligned with where your “cheese” (read: clients) is, then you can communicate with them, speak to their pain, and give them hope that if they work with you, they can get out of their pain and back into their Joy, Success, Abundance. And you can do all this without struggle and stress. Because it comes naturally and authentically from who you really are.
You actually get to help people and make money and feel great about it.
So think about it. Do you think your ‘cheese’ has been moved? Where do you think it has been moved to? If you need help with this, contact me. I’d love to support you.
enJOY!
Jan Masters
The Everyday Joy Coach
